(see it through April 23). But I found myself celebrating me some RiNo diversity, checking in first at sleek and sophisticated RedLine for the official opening for three of MOP's most central exhibits.

One showcases series by ten artists from the Houston FotoFest, one is a diverse show curated by MOP mastermind Mark Sink and another focuses on modern uses of vintage techniques, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, collodion wet-plate images and more. All of it was beautiful, brimming with creativity and a lot to take in at once.

FotoFest photographer Dona Schwartz contributed a lovely series of diverse parents posed in the nursery. Viviane Le Courtois contributed an ode to potato peels, featuring video footage of a potato peeler at work, embedded in a nest of dried peels. An invitation to touch from Denver photographer Liz Greene: Art up in the air:

And haunting style revivals:

See these and more at RedLine, through mid-April.

Afterward, I opted for an experience of completely different kind - the grand opening show at Super Ordinary, which is, in a way, the complete opposite of RedLine: a downtown, underground, funky garage gallery that's attached to the dream loft of local design and fashion movers Tran and Josh Wills. The show featured work by Matt Scobey, Tony Farfalla, and Tuyet Nguyen, the three-person Bored of Directors collective, and gallery-goers were treated to Twinkies, beer, spins by DJ Tonyo and, if they were lucky, a tour of of the Wills's new design-savvy digs. The work was rough, partly street and generally satirical: Scobey offered his trademark patterns painted across a neat grid of street signs, as well as a funny row of "designer" barf bags. Pure sight gag!

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I was especially enamored of Nguyen's poetic origami trash pile, What Am I Going To Do with Myself Now, which cleanly shot off its wistful message right in my direction, even if it was offset by a giant wooden sign on the wall behind it, reading "UNFUCKINGSINKABLE."

The title on that one? My Dick is Bigger Than Yours.

Keep it up: We're expecting big things in the future from both Super Ordinary and the Bored of Directors.

Susan Froyd is a Denver native who studied English, Art and finally Journalism at Metro State University, and also managed movie theaters and sold art supplies before landing at Westword in 1992. Decades later, she still feels privileged to serve the vibrant artists in all disciplines who make our town a more engaging place to live.

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